Architecture and Progress - Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment

About the author

Mark Alan Blumberg is an Assistant Professor at the Auburn University College of Architecture Design and Construction, USA. Mark researches the spaces between cognition and representation through diagrams, and between abstraction and analysis in mapping. His interests in the urban scale and complexities serve as a connection between present environmental, cultural, and societal conditions and potential future outcomes of current decisions and practices.
Matt Hall is a Professor at the Auburn University College of Architecture Design and Construction, USA, and partner in the design firms Superunison and Obstructures. His work is concerned with the rift between intentions and consequences, the dilemmas of decision making, and the uncertain future contexts that all design is inevitably subject to. His is the co-editor of Lewerentz Fragments (Actar, 2021) and an A+U feature issue on Swedish architect Bernt Nyberg (2017), along with other publications on post-war Swedish architecture. He has lectured, published, and exhibited internationally on topics related to theory, criticism, and pedagogy.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hall Blumberg
• Assisted by: Blumberg Mark (Editor), Matthew Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032767550
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276755-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Sociology, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Regional & area planning, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Theory of architecture, Regional and area planning, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Utopia;dystopia;anthropocene;growth;development